Oct 21, 2021 | General, K-12, WILL News
Will Flanders, Research Director Students in Wisconsin, and around the nation, have dealt with two school years that were largely disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Despite ample evidence that reopening schools was safe, teachers unions fought tooth-and-nail to...
Oct 15, 2021 | General, K-12, WILL News
Will Flanders, Research Director Many have made the case that the pandemic increased the movement of families away from traditional public schools. Families are moving to nontraditional options, like learning pods, as well as to more established educational options,...
Oct 4, 2021 | General, K-12, WILL News
Will Flanders, Research Director Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recently attempted to make the case for masking in schools by citing a number of different studies that purported to show their positive effects in a series of tweets. However, his use of one study...
Sep 29, 2021 | K-12, WILL News
Will Flanders, Research Director The Assembly and Senate passed a common-sense reform to make data on school-level spending available to the public in a user-friendly, online portal. Assembly Bill 387/Senate Bill 373 received bi-partisan support in the Assembly, along...
Sep 17, 2021 | General, K-12 Finance, WILL News
Will Flanders, Research Director Friday, September 17, is a critically important day for school districts around the state of Wisconsin. Some schools in the Milwaukee Public School system have put up signs encouraging students to attend, and a popular lunch item...
Aug 24, 2021 | Equal Protection Project, WILL News
By: Miranda Spindt Critical Race Theory (CRT) is taking the country’s public schools by storm and was at the forefront of a joint Education Committee hearing in Wisconsin on August 11. A bill that would require school boards to make curriculum accessible to the public...
